Overwhelming (Al-Ghaasheyah)
In the Name of Allah, the Merciful, the Most Merciful
HAS THERE COME unto thee the tiding of the Overshadowing Event? 1 Some faces, that Day, will be humiliated (in the Hell-fire, i.e. the faces of all disbelievers, Jews and Christians, etc.). 2 Toiling, weary, 3 They will suffer the heat of the blazing fire 4 given to drink from a boiling spring. 5 No food for them save the bitterness of dry thorns, 6 Which neither nourishes nor avails against hunger. 7 Many a face will be in serenity on that day. 8 With their effort [they are] satisfied 9 In a lofty Paradise. 10 They shall hear therein no vain discourse; 11 Wherein is a gushing spring, 12 Within it are couches raised high 13 And drinking-cups ready placed, 14 And cushions lined up 15 And carpets spread around. 16 Look they not at the camels, how they are created? 17 And the heaven, how it is raised? 18 And the hills, how they are set up? 19 And the earth, how it was spread out? 20 Remind them; you are surely a reminder. 21 You are not over them a controller. 22 Save the one who turns away and disbelieves 23 Allah will chastise him with the most terrible chastisement. 24 For to Us will be their return; 25 then upon Us shall rest their reckoning. 26